Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election?
mlg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s because she wasn’t a major contestant in the 2016 primary because people voted for better candidates. On top of that, she seems to be a 1:1 copy paste of Biden, which isn’t good because people didn’t like Biden half assing his promises in office and giving republicans an easy time making a counter campaign.
On top of that she basically told the uncommitted group to get bent, so that gives Trump more voter leverage similar to how he beat Hillary.
Biden was met with the same voter response because he was voted in explicitly to remove Trump. Otherwise he’s known as being Obama’s VP, of which even Obama said that he should retire afterwards because he was a centrist.
It’s the same deal as 2016, where the DNC thinks campaigning on “lesser evil” is a viable strategy in order to retain their lobby money. If the RNC actually had more than two brain cells, they could easily win this election by not having their candidates not act like insane asylum criminals.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
the DNC isnt so much campaigning on the lesser evils this time around as it is campaigning for the moderate american position.
There is some lesser evil, but it’s more akin trying to appeal the most broadly to the general public while heeding the historical american roots that politics has lost as of recent.